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...Dewitt finds a delightful Bogart duo at the Brattle. CASABLANCA is a love vs. war flick with Bogart saying a lot of meaninglessly cool things to Ingrid Bergman--whose love handle are not featured in the film. Anyway, war wins out the end, proving that, given the alternative of bedding down with a gorgeous Swede and playing around with a rickety old plane, men almost always prefer machines to blondes...
...supposed to be worth a trillion dollars. It turns out that Nature (in this case, the aforementioned bird) has played a trick on Man, and the statue turns out to be worth little more than a couple of back issues of Penthouse's Madonna issue. In any case, Dewitt has seen both of these classics about 20 times on PBS, but the communal viewing experience might be worth the five-odd bucks...
...Dewitt readily admits the validity of the point, but questions the sobriety of the average audience attending the movie. This is one of the most renowned head films ever and calls into question the urban use of illicit substances: a triumph of Nature or another perversion...
Competing with the Nickolodeon's ready-made typo is the Harvard Square Theater's CALIGULA. Dewitt thinks that this is either the worst soft-porn action movie or the worst action-filled soft-porn film ever made. Caligula, the Man, tries to dominate his fellow Men, and Nature ends up aserting herself to resolve the ensuing chaos. Sex and violence are so intermingled here that the sex scenes aren't a turn-on and the graphic bits of violence induce fits of laughter instead of a quickening of the pulse. The only notable monologue in the movie...
...Dewitt finishes this column, his eyes seize on a ray of hope, a certain hope for Nature's final triumph over the inevitably jaded sensibilities and efforts of Man. The Beacon Hill Cinema in beautiful downtown Boston unveils GODZILLA 1985 this weekend, a film which should be subtitled "Nature's Ultimate Weapon." The fire-spitting monster once again proves to be the most effective remedy to the crime, filth, traffic problems, pornography, impoliteness, inflation, hypocrisy and general yuck which accumulates every time Man decides to congregate in groups of more than four. Raymond Burr also stars in this latest incarnation...